Board
Officers
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Colleen Kelly Faherty
President
Colleen is an Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Federal Initiatives within the Executive Division. Colleen joined the NY AG…
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Dianisbeth Acquie
Vice President of High School Division
Dianisbeth Acquie is the Associate Director for the Office of Judicial Clerkships at Columbia Law School. She is a graduate…
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Kwok Ng
Deputy Vice President of High School Division
Kwok Kei Ng is an Associate Court Attorney in New York City Civil Court, Kings County. In his previous position, he worked as an…
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Maya Brodziak
Vice President of College Division
Maya is an associate at Sher Tremonte LLC, focusing on complex criminal litigation and criminal defense…
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Brantley Carter
Deputy Vice President of College Division
Currently, Brantley L. Carter is an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Brooklyn Tort Division of the New York City Law Department…
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Yan Fu
Vice President of Law School Division
Yan Fu is a civil rights and employment lawyer and the founder of The Fu Firm PLLC. He…
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Tatiana Medina Rodriguez
Deputy Vice President of Law School Division
Tatiana is a Senior Appellate Court Attorney at the Appellate Division, First Judicial Department. In her role, Tatiana analyzes…
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Yifeng Chen
Secretary
Yifeng Chen is an associate at Jia Law Group, P.C., with a concentration on general corporate matters and commercial…
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Sahng-Ah Yoo
Treasurer
Sahng-Ah Yoo is a litigator at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, with experience in complex federal litigation…
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Christine Gibbs
Deputy Treasurer
Christine Gibbs is a law student at Columbia Law School and will be with the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom upon graduation.
Directors
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Judge Pamela K. Chen
Board Chair
Pamela K. Chen is a federal district judge in the Eastern District of New York in Brooklyn. She was nominated to the federal bench in January 2013 by President Barack Obama…
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Judge Lois Bloom
Director
Judge Lois Bloom was sworn in as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York on May 18, 2001…
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Celina Cabán Gandhi
Founder & Director
Celina Cabán Gandhi is the Founder and Director of the Sotomayor Program. Ms. Cabán Gandhi is currently a staff attorney with Manhattan Legal Services…
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Debra Lesser
Director
Debra Lesser is the Executive Director of the Justice Resource Center, overseeing 28 different law-related programs for the school-age population…
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Karen Leyva-Drivin
Director
Karen Leyva-Drivin serves as legal counsel for Bloomberg L.P. where she handles commercial transactional matters while serving as co-chair of the Legal Department’s Pro Bono Program…
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Elaine Chiu
Director
Elaine is Professor of Law and the Director of the Ronald H. Brown Center of Civil Rights at St. John’s University School of Law in New York City…
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Rahul Agarwal
Director
Rahul Agarwal is the Deputy Chief Counsel in the Office of the Counsel to the Mayor of New York City. Prior to joining the the Mayor’s…
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Linda S. Lin
Director
Linda S. Lin is the founder of the Law School Division of the Sotomayor Program (formerly Joint Minority Bar Judicial Internship Program, which merged with the Sotomayor Program in 2015). Linda currently serves as the Chief Legal Officer at SiriusPoint Ltd.
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Anna Stowe
Anna Stowe is the Chief Operating Officer for Kaplan Hecker & Fink. She is responsible for managing and overseeing the firm’s daily business operations while working closely with the managing partner and Management Committee to execute the overarching goals for the firm.